Tess DeGroot | Reading, writing and a good cup of tea.
My debut picture book biography, Cut!: How Lotte Reiniger and a Pair of Scissors Revolutionized Animation , is now available! Matt Schu is the illustrator, and his drawings spectacularly bring Lotte's real-life world of early-1900s art and cinema to life, while also paying tribute to the exquisite use of shadow of light in Lotte's films.
Who was Lotte Reiniger? She was the creator of the oldest surviving full-length animated film, the inventor of an early multiplane camera, and a revolutionary silhouette artist whose influence can still be seen in the works of artists and filmmakers to this day.
Here are two sample pages from Cut! , photographed by Matt Schu, along with reviews for the book.
Tess DeGroot | Reading, writing and a good cup of tea.